Chief Wets-It, Assiniboine, Photographer: Frank A. Rinehart, Courtesy of Boston Public Library on Creative Commons Flickr

Assiniboine belongs to which of the following language family?

a) Algonquian
b) Athapaskan
c) Uto-Aztecan
d) Siouan
e) Aleut

The answer is d) Assiniboine is a Siouan language.  The Ojibwa language is a member of the Algonquian language family. The Kaska language belongs to the Athapaskan, Northern Paiute to the widespread Uto-Aztecan family and the Aleut language to the Eskimo-Aleut language family.

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